Isaac E. Avery

Isaac Erwin Avery (20 December 1828-3 July 1863) was a Colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.

Biography
Isaac Erwin Avery was born in Swan Ponds, Burke County, North Carolina on 20 December 1828, and he left the University of North Carolina after just one year in order to manage a Yancey County plantation. When his state seceded from the United States, Avery raised a company for the Confederate States Army, and he commanded the company at Bull Run and Seven Pines. In the summer of 1862, he was promoted to colonel, and he was wounded at Gaines' Mill. After Robert F. Hoke was wounded at the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Avery took command of his brigade, leading it at the Battle of Gettysburg. On 2 July 1863, while assaulting Cemetery Hill, he was struck in the neck by a bullet and fell from his white horse, and he was paralyzed on the right side. The mortally wounded Avery scribbled a note with his left hand, asking a Major to tell his father that he had died with his face to the enemy. He died in a field hospital the next day.